Saturday, March 9, 2013

Tim Dolan was
giving depositions just as he was borrowing a billionaire’s jet to hop the
Atlantic and take Rome by Media Storm. But not to worry. The cemetery deal was
about burying cash and not bodies – ha ha.

Then again I
can remember Governor Fife Syminton III of Arizona running for Governor not to be governor but solely to
avoid prosecution in the Savings and Loan fraund scandal in Phoenix and let’s not
forget Governor George W. Bush of Texas about to be indicted in the Enron Fraud
thing. Seeking and holding a higher office can keep the dogs of justice at bay sometimes.

Now would be a good time for Tim
to move on to bigger and better things.

God knows
that Benedict was not Rock Star material.

And if the modern papacy is to be of
the John Paul II model, the Rock Star PR Media fantasia thing, then Tim Dolan
is the next pope coming from the PR, BS Media Capital of the Planet, New York City.

Seems like
yesterday I had never heard of Tim Dolan from Milwaukee and he shows up
unannounced to become the instant favorite son of Gotham City. Wow. Instant local media celebrity. Don't bother to check to see how dirty his laundry coming from Milwaukee is - his drawers etc. - (nasty business - the truth)

"When Reagan
was elected, two months later there was a meeting of his National Security
Council in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to discuss one thing: How can we destroy
liberation theology in Latin America? And they concluded: We can’t destroy it,
but we can divide the church. And so they went after the pope. They gave him
lots and lots of cash for solidarity in Poland. And in exchange, they got the
permission, if you will, the commitment on the part of the papacy, to destroy
liberation theology."

...

So, history and cheerleading of popes, what I call
papolatry, will not cover up the facts. This has been the most sordid 42 years
of Catholic history since the Borgias. And as I say, I think it’s really about
ending that church as we know it. I think Protestantism, too, needs a reboot.

I
think all of Christianity can get back more to the teachings of Jesus, a
revolutionary around love and justice. That’s what it’s about. And that’s why
there’s been such fierce resistance all along from the right wing. The CIA has
been involved in, especially with Pope John Paul II, the decimation of
liberation theology all over South America, the replacing of these heroic
leaders, including bishops and cardinals, with Opus Dei cardinals and bishops,
who are—well, frankly, it’s a fascist organization, Opus Dei is.It’s all about
obedience. It’s not about ideas or theology. They haven’t produced one
theologian in 40 years. They produce canon lawyers and people who infiltrate
where the power is, whether it’s the media, the Supreme Court or the FBI, the
CIA, and finance, especially in Europe.

Steele's
contribution was pivotal. He was the covert US figure behind the intelligence
gathering of the new commando units. The aim: to halt a nascent Sunni
insurgency in its tracks by extracting information from detainees.

It was a role made for Steele. The veteran had made his
name inEl Salvadoralmost
20 years earlier as head of a US group of special forces advisers who were
training and funding the Salvadoran military to fight the FNLM guerrilla
insurgency. These government units developed a fearsome international
reputation for their death squad activities. Steele's own biography describes
his work there as the "training of the best counterinsurgency force"
in El Salvador.

Of his
El Salvador experience in 1986, Steele told Dr Max Manwaring, the author of El
Salvador at War: An Oral History: "When I arrived here there was a
tendency to focus on technical indicators … but in an insurgency the focus has
to be on human aspects. That means getting people to talk to you."

But the
arming of one side of the conflict by the US hastened the country's descent
into a civil war in which 75,000 people died and 1 million out of a population
of 6 million became refugees.

Celerino
Castillo, a Senior Drug Enforcement Administration special agent who worked
alongside Steele in El Salvador, says: "I first heard about Colonel James
Steele going to Iraq and I said they're going to implement what is known as the
Salvadoran Option in Iraq and that's exactly what happened. And I was
devastated because I knew the atrocities that were going to occur in Iraq which
we knew had occurred in El Salvador."

It was
in El Salvador that Steele first came in to close contact with the man who
would eventually command US operations in Iraq: David Petraeus. Then a young
major, Petraeus visited El Salvador in 1986 and reportedly even stayed with
Steele at his house.

But
while Petraeus headed for the top, Steele's career hit an unexpected buffer
when he was embroiled in the Iran-Contra affair. A helicopter pilot, who also
had a licence to fly jets, he ran the airport from where the American advisers
illegally ran guns to right-wing Contra guerrillas in Nicaragua. While the
congressional inquiry that followed put an end to Steele's military ambitions,
it won him the admiration of then congressman Dick Cheney who sat on the
committee and admired Steele's efforts fighting leftists in both Nicaragua and
El Salvador.

In late
1989 Cheney was in charge of the US invasion of Panama to overthrow their once
favoured son, General Manuel Noriega. Cheney picked Steele to take charge of
organising a new police force in Panama and be the chief liaison between the
new government and the US military.

The American press/media has kept a lid on the contaminated food
chains in Europe whereby Beef Products
like the mystery meat filler they put into Taco Bell tacos in the UK is actually mixed with
horsemeat.

Just because the Americans don’t want to know, are too dumbed down on Medicaid Pharma test drugs, don’t want to test
the filth that does not in many cases have to be labeled as filth on the label
of the meat product -

Does not mean that horse meat or Chinese chickens at KFC gorged
on Chinese human feces is not being sold in American supermarkets or fast food
outlets like Taco Bell or KFC.

LONDON, March 1 (Reuters) - Britain's
food regulator said on Friday that testing had found horsemeat in ground beef
at Taco Bell UK fast-food outlets, a discovery that puts new pressure on parent
Yum Brands Inc, which is grappling with a food safety scare in China.

Taco Bell said the horsemeat issue is isolated to its UK
market, where the Mexican-inspired chain has just three restaurants, and that
it will step up testing of its beef.

On Monday, Yum said it would stop using more than 1,000
poultry slaughterhouses in China as it moves to tighten food safety and reverse
a sharp drop in business at KFC restaurants in its top market after a scare
over contaminated chicken.

Europe's horsemeat scandal erupted in January, when testing
in Ireland revealed that some beef products also contained equine DNA.

It since has spread across the continent, ensnaring numerous
well-known brands, prompting product withdrawals, consumer concerns and
government investigations into the region's complex food-processing chains.

Giffords, Kelly and several of the other victims and survivors of
the Jan. 8, 2011, shooting massacre gathered this afternoon to encourage
Arizonans to ask Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake to support expanding
background checks.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to mark up a
background-check bill tomorrow, but Politico reported this afternoon that a
bipartisan effort to craft a bill had fallen apart over differences regarding
whether non-licensed sellers would have to records of firearm transactions.

As Giffords and Kelly arrived at the Safeway this morning, they laid
a bouquet of white flowers at the memorial for the six people who were killed
during the Tucson rampage: 9-year-old Christina-Taylor Green, federal Judge
John M. Roll, Giffords aide Gabe Zimmerman and retirees Dorothy Morris, Phyllis
Schneck and Dorwan Stoddard.

Kelly, with Giffords by his side, then took to the podium to call on
the public to contact McCain and Flake to let them know they should support new
laws that would expand background checks to gun sales by unlicensed dealers and
to make it easier to block sales to mentally ill people who pose a danger to
themselves or others.

Is Modernism in RC terms really a call for help by the Vatican to
manage the mess of the Church after thirty years of medieval rule? After two hundred years of fear of a new Europe and now a modern global culture?

If what religion historian Diamaid MacCulloch is saying is true the RC
church has never figured a way to transition from a Europe populated by
absolute Catholic Monarchs to the democratic systems of today in Europe and the
world now in general.

So, in a way what history writes about Henry VIII does not make
it so much anti-Catholic in his actions because a great deal of what he was doing in
terms of shutting down the obsolete Monastery system was already being done on a smaller
scale all over Europe in the previous century.

Henry’s need for
a male heir, for domestic peace, and the lack of permission of divorce from a political pope is what
drove Henry to decentralize religious control away from Rome and to the local level.

Vatican II was perhaps the beginning of a dialogue to begin the transition away from the fear of Modernism to an understanding and accommodation with it.

The key word here is dialogue indicating a two way conversation.

If there is only a one way monologue through
mimeographed press statements to the public, it is not a two way conversation.

And while Celibacy may be a great one way form of birth control to minimize church
expenses and benefits allotted to the clergy, a one way conversation does not make
for a two way conversation or procreation of the Spirit.

Nor does it make for a healthy intercourse of ideas between an inflated self glory of clericalism and
the common man and woman, i.e. the Laity.

One cannot but help notice that the
Italian media have led the way against two Cardinals with Irish Names.

Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles has gotten
the heat in the Italian press not to show up and vote for Pope.

Born in Northern Ireland, Cardinal
Keith O’Brien of Scotland got the heat in the media real fast when Omerta
evaporated away and Priests and or former seminarians got phone calls (?) out of the
blue for an intervention for poor dear Keith - no doubt, anonymous phone calls (?), old phone numbers listed in files from decades old complaints, from the not so secret Herranz Report overlapping with the Ratzinger Worldwide Pedophile Legacy Archive in the Vatican -

– all
of a sudden accusations against Keith came out of the closet and he was
getting payback from the Italians for all the nasty Irish Politicians that have
put the Vatican in the its place lately? Talk of legalization of abortion in Irish Parliament etc. Legalization of Gay Marriage in Britain etc.

And retired Philly Crime Boss Justin “Big
Frank” Rigali, an I-talian, not so much as a peep of the Child Abuse mess in
the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and how he was allowed to walk away from those crimes against children and humanity, and retire
in the lap of luxury in the lap of his protégé Bishop Stika's Baliwick in Knoxville Tennessee. Does Pennsylvania have an extradition treaty with Tennessee?

﻿I ran into an article
in the Guardian, a Brit news source, about the mixed reviews of the new movie
in Italian – Habemus Papam – (We have a pope.)

Alas, cannot find a video with English
subtitles. The storyline is about a newly elected pope with panic/anxiety
attacks who requires the services of a shrink.

The best of the best shrink available is played
by director Nanni Moretti. I think that the storyline has the pope ending up
going to the shrink’s ex-wife, Margherita Buy, for therapy and in the end the
pope resigns a job he did not really want and could not handle.

That is a very human theme. (If popes cannot be
human, then how could Jesus have been human? Myth reflecting reality or reality
reflecting myth?)

When the Cardinal and his elitist corporate friends and bankers want a Fascist Like display of blind obedience in the annual 5th Avenue St Patrick's Parade every year, Public Drunkedness is okay but no signs or expressions of freedom or private personal opinions, they are VERBOTEN. There are alternatives and there is life in the other boroughs and outside the control of the stone canyons and stone hearts of the elitist ruling class in Manhattan.

“I know what it’s like to be told
you’re not welcome,” Mr. Fay said as he rushed around his Astoria, Queens, home
making last-minute preparations for this Sunday’s parade, which starts at 2
p.m. in Woodside and runs for two hours. It begins at Skillman Avenue and 47th
Street and proceeds east on Skillman, ending at Woodside Avenue and 58th
Street. …

With the phone ringing constantly,
Mr. Fay finalized details for portable toilets, pipers and puppets to be held
aloft by children. The parade has grown in size every year, and this year he
expects more than 2,000 participants.

Bars that once wanted nothing to do
with the parade are now opening early for breakfast on parade day, he said.

As for the parade, he said, “We err
on the side of hospitality and inclusiveness.” And with the doors wide open, he
has certainly amassed a wide array of regular attendees, including from many
ethnic groups in this extremely diverse area of Queens.

At the moment, Mr. Fay was making
arrangements with Pakistani and Bengali contingents. There will be Bolivian,
Ecuadorean, Korean and Chinese groups, as well as a troupe of young black and
Latino step-dancers from the Bronx.

Mr. Fay called a Turkish contingent seeking
to march for the first time, to honor the food shipments that Turkey sent
Ireland during the potato famine. Then there was the Mexican group marching in
tribute to that country’s San Patricio battalion in the Mexican-American War.

“We try to reflect the spirit of New
York – we’re all neighbors, we marry each other,” Mr. Fay said in his living
room, which is presided over by a green statue of St. Patrick, rescued from a
trash heap, with its arms broken off.

As usual, the parade will honor the
Rev. Father Mychal Judge, the gay Fire Department chaplain who marched in the
parade in 2000 and died on Sept. 11, 2001, at the World Trade Center. And as
usual there will be a moment of silence for Robert Rygor, an early critic of
the Fifth Avenue parade who died of complications from H.I.V. in 2004.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Father Dougal Maguire of Craggy Island Ireland is a stand in for the
Late Great Dermot Morgan – Father Ted – who unfortunately cannot run being
deceased and all that. (Though few I think in the Vatican or Media might really notice.)

I am not being sarcastic or even cynical when I name Josef Ratzinger
the new Antipope and the Second incarnation of Benedict XVI as the retired
entity wants to be called from his cave in hell calling the shots in the
Vatican from that basement bunker of his new palace at Vatican City.

“Pope Emeritus”. White robes. “His Holiness”. Living in the little
palace in the back yard of the big palace.

What do they call those kind of living arrangements in houses – a mother daughter
house?

Don’t expect any reforms in the RCC under the new pope. The old
pope, the new antipope and his Tea Party cronies will be passing notes back and
forth in code and by secret buff couriers to thwart the new pope’s efforts even
to take a pee.

All this modern, in the last six hundred year sense Pope and
Antipope stuff started when Philip IV of France

On the History Entertainment Channel on cable they talk about Phillip
IV doing a hostile takeover of the Templar’s European Banking Assets and
torturing and killing all the bankers in order to cancel his debt to the Bank.

The History Channel never mentions Clement V up front as an equal co-conspirator with
Philip IV to take over the European Banking system.

Sounds a bit familiar and the EU has clamped
down on the Vatican Bank for the moment as a rogue outlaw banking entity in
Europe and the man in ultimate charge, the pope, resigns and hides in a bunker
in a foreign country without extradition treaties to avoid prosecution and
imprisonment?

Clement was French and decided to stay in France and set up the so
called Avignon Papacy

in France for over a hundred years. After about sixty years or so, the guys in Rome
started to elect their own separate bishops of Rome or popes and started
calling the French popes Antipopes.

The
Antipopes in Anignon France move out and for another decade or two you gots a few more
straggler Antipopes as the Romans seemed to have won that argument on the concept that a Bishop of Rome should actually live and work
in Rome.

BTW two of the last three AntiPopes were both named Benedict XIV. Believe it or not. Smoke and or is it a dyslexic
eye/mirror to see a similarity between XIV and XVI etc.? LOL

Between the Rigali wing of the Swiss Guard, the Opus Dei New Pope
Lobby, the media is the last thing Cardinal O’Brien is worried about.

The fear to set foot in Italy for O'Brien is now that
the German Retires, an act of survival on O'Brien's part does not give Britain a vote, by veiled threat of death by parties within the Vatican Corporation?

Is this papal election regarding Britain the first time since the Reformation under Henry VIII that Rome is doling out its unique brand of queered justice?

The Laity in Britain don't mean Jack Shit to Rome? You bethca!

Whoever emerges as Benedict’s puppet pope in Rome in March, he will
not have any validity in Great Britain. This kind of petty bitch politics of
the Vatican is a sign of the end days of the Vatican I think.

The Counter Counter Reformation against Vatican II is under full steam. The cliff over which the RCC finally jumps is within sight?

The Smoke of Satan blinds the vision of many these days in the soon to be late, great, Vatican City State.

O’Brien is not stupid. He knows that he is not welcome. The American
pedophile protector enablers Cardinals Mahony and Rigali are embraced as true
brothers of the Vatican twisted sister cult that runs the RCC these days.

O’Brien having alleged encounters with adult male clerics is like
the most common thing in the Vatican City State or the church worldwide in a
sexual sense I would imagine. As Catholic as Apple pie!

O’Brien is likely to be welcomed as a hero by the clerics in Rome Italy
for being merely human.

If he dared to place his vote in conclave, he would likely die under
mysterious circumstances like the late Albino Luciani, aka John Paul I. (Wink. Nod)

Monday, February 25, 2013

Reading some progressive Catholic Blogs in the last few days, I get
the sense that once Josef Ratzinger got promoted to pope, he found out how
little real power a pope has in the Vatican.

That John Paul II made it look easy. That Joe thought that he too
could be a rock star pope.

Truth is that JPII was only a media star and his role as conduit for
cash through the Vatican and into the Eastern Bloc i.e. Poland for political intrigue
fit into pro bono American East Coast media gold during the Cold War.

Well, along comes Joe the Pope and the first thing he does is he
wants to show the world what a great scholar he thinks he is and then insults
all of Islam with his scholarly Cliff Notes at Regensburg in September 2006.

The man clearly does not understand Islam or he thinks himself insulated in
some small college delivering his cheesy little college work that nobody
outside the college will know or care about.

No doubt Joe’s best moment came in May 2006 when he finally, after
years of writing private secret memos about Maciel to General Wojtyla who never
read them apparently, he pushed an aged Legion of Christ founder and general
all around pervert and Madoff like crook Marcial Maciel Dellogado into a forced
retirement. Not that hard to bring down an old toothless lion at the zoo.

All well and good. And like
Henry VIII’s breaking up of the very corrupt obsolete Monastery system in England,
the breakup and redistribution of wealth and serfs and seminarians and foot
soldiers is still underway for that Legion of Christ empire.

Aside from that, the pope these days is little more than Mickey Mouse at Disneyland who must
ride around in his ridiculous pope mobile and wave to the tourists, the majority
of practicing Catholics in Rome on any given day of the week, that far
outnumber the non-practicing natives etc. and then once a week arrive in
Superstar Audience Hall and deliver a pithy little moral sounding message to
inspire the rich tourists and justify their very expensive trip to Rome and the
Vatican museum.

All this time, the thousands of folders on all the pedophile Priest
and pedophile religious members of his church worldwide have been sitting on
his old desk collecting dust at the Inquisition, toxic waste that nobody other than
a good German clerk could deal with in terms of classifying, stamping and filing
away for future reference and or possible authoritative action. Yeah right.

I think that Joe the Pope got bored, and worse than that, that pile
of toxic files back in the Inquisition office were becoming his only legacy, a
full floor's worth in acreage no doubt in the underground bombproof eternal Vatican
Library.

Ratzinger’s, Benedict’s, recent obsessive ranting about
homosexuality no doubt is from his long term memory both from his own personal
past, the type of distorted sexuality of the average Roman cleric, and along
with his past as John Paul’s chief clerk, gatekeeper and fire putter outer of
the child abuse thing that got out of the Vatican Fire Brigade’s control both under
John Paul II and the overlapping John Paul/Benedict united regime.

The modern world, democracy and communication technology brought perversion to
the surface of the pond in the form of all the Bernard Laws of the Hierarchy,
one state and one country at a time.

When I see somebody like Cardinal O’Brien finally getting some kind
of payback from the Vatican, I see a man without a political party in the
Vatican being picked off as road carrion for the sake of public example to all
the incoming Cardinal’s about to rush in and crown Benedict’s hand-picked successor
from a field of stooges hand-picked over three decades during the John
Paul/Benedict Magisterium period of the church.

That and stabbing a Britain in the back fits well into the Wehrmacht
training of his youth, a story that he has controlled all along his timeline
btw.

That Mahony in Los Angeles carries the Gomez’s Opus Dei Vote to
Rome. Rigali certainly knows the details of the Cedric Tornay Swiss Guard Murders and can vote because he has the blackmail power to do so.

And no doubt there are a handful of Cardinals now who as younger
men heard their older cardinal bosses discuss the results of the secret autopsy
of John Paul I. Blackmail power there too I think.

John Paul II in his obsession with the dead, dare I call it
necromancy, had the bones of some Polish saint, a national Polish hero examined
and cat scanned, and also had the body of Celestine V, the last pope to
voluntarily resign forensically examined, an object of obsession now for
Benedict also.

Also some sense of trying
to make papal sense out of the bizarre way that popes fuck things over for the
sake of personal power and prestige masked in a face of that strange bizarre
truly unknown to them Christ creature.

John Paul II, and his obsession with dead papal royal bodies and
Polish national heroes, in his role of also turning John XXIII’s body into another
tourist thingy in St. Peter’s, a Vatican II trophy?, did not under his watch order an autopsy of John
Paul I because he already knew the results or did not want to know those
results that catapulted him into global power and fame. Believe it or not.

Now Joe’s only role left is to protect his niche in papal history,
is to shred or misfile those thousands of pedo files in the Office of the
Inquistion’s vaults, not to be refound in next thousand years by the average mediocre
Vatican scholars of the future allowed to examine them. LOL